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Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Jack-B-Little on 08 Jan 2006, 18:48

hey, im new to the forums and im starting a comic and id like some advice.

teh comic so far is about the people who live in a smallish mid-eastern city, everyone from the crazy religious nut who lives above teh cafe to the high school kids to the naked hppy comune in the woods who everyone thinks is really a bunch of sasquatches. has a lot of snarky/ witty humor, but deals with important thigns. having such a wide group of characters is so i have enough peopple to have seperate plots and stuff incase i get bored with some charactres and i can come back to them later.

if you have any general advise please give me some so that i may stow it a way like the little advise hourding rodent that i am.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Laurie on 08 Jan 2006, 19:11

Many otherwise good webcomics lack a proofreader. Judging from your post, you seem to have ideas faster than your fingers can type, so a pr would be good for catching the slip-ups, and you can focus on the art and the story-telling. Just like writing a term paper, it's good to have an outside eye read over it for you.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: TheMike on 08 Jan 2006, 19:12

don't break the 4th wall

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Thalass on 09 Jan 2006, 06:03

Unless it's really funny.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Mollinda on 02 Feb 2006, 12:03

Quote from: Thalass

Unless it's really funny.

:D

My advice is don't pack too much in all at once.

I did and now I'm having to kill off characters :(

Well I say that, I just got bored really.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: almost thursday on 02 Feb 2006, 14:02

don't say yr gonna update five times a week and then update twice a month. people hate that.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: grrraham on 03 Feb 2006, 00:09

Don't throw in a lot of characters all at once.
If you want a lot of characters introduce them slowly, and establish them before you move onto something new.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: saturnine1979 on 09 Feb 2006, 19:44

I hate to be an ass here, but spellcheck.

My god man, no one is going to care if they can't read it.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Mollinda on 10 Feb 2006, 16:00

and don't use TEH. or w00t. unless it's with heavy irony.

Title: starting a new comic
Post by: Luke on 10 Feb 2006, 20:05

This probably won't be an issue when you're starting off, but keep your filesize down. People on dial-up get turned off to a comic when it takes half an hour to read the first ten strips in an archive because it takes them that long to load. Keep the site layout clean & navigateable - the four golden buttons should be very easy to find (first, previous, next, last). People don't like to have to look for stuff.